The Amadeus.NET Blog

Heroes Happen Here

2008-04-17T04:51:00Z

Hallo, Although it might seem as if I was totally lost, the truth is that the last 1.5 years were more than productive and possibly the most exciting concerning research. I have been traveling around Europe, meeting people and sharing ideas, while at the same time trying to catch up with all the changes around us lately. Windows Vista , Visual Studio 2008 , and Windows Server 2008 are the new games we all now have to spend days and nights to get used with and as platforms seem to change now in a...(read more)

The Amadeus .NET Assembly Browser (Part I)

2006-11-29T13:37:00Z

The Amadeus .NET Assembly Browser, is a shell extension for Windows® XP that adds a property page to the Properties window of executable files (.dll and .exe), that represent .NET assemblies . This property page contains an advanced object browser, similar to the one in Visual Studio® yet with many more features, that allows you to investigate the contents of the assembly. This application does not require Microsoft® Visual Studio® to be installed in your system. It does however, require the .NET...(read more)

Implementing 'Show All Files' in a Visual Studio project.

2006-11-25T04:43:41Z

This article shows how a project implementer in Visual Studio 2005 can handle the " Show All Files " command to show/hide nodes (that may or may not represent files on disk). Before I proceed, it's important to mention that, in my projects, I don't use the MPF classes. I've developed my own classes that wrap the interop interfaces and I've added my own logic to them. Therefore, some of the examples in this article, may need to be modified before they are used in a different project system. This article...(read more)

Using the Windows Forms designer as your custom Design editor. (Part I)

2006-11-24T14:39:00Z

While using the Visual Studio core editor as your text editor in a language service is a known and straightforward procedure, creating a designer has been totally left in the responsibility of the language service or editor implementer. In this quest, the most wanted designer is the Windows Forms Designer, that can be customized (along with the toolbox), and used as our custom designer. Our instruments to accomplish this, will be the following classes and interfaces, some provided with the .NET Framework...(read more)

How to dynamically Import/Export settings in Visual Studio 2005.

2006-11-22T08:57:00Z

Since .vssettings files were first introduced in Visual Studio 2005, I've seen many questions about how the Import/Export settings mechanism can be controlled through code. This was something that bothered me too since VS2005 Beta 1 but it didn't take long till I figure out the solution. I have now created two methods that I use in all VSPackages that I create, that do the job. The Import/Export mechanism in Visual Studio 2005 can be controlled with the use of a number of interfaces, provided with...(read more)

Hallo

2006-11-22T06:15:25Z

Hallo to everybody in the BloggingAbout.NET community!

I was planning for longer welcome post but my urgent need to start posting technical things didn't let me any time. I just hope I'll have the chance to talk to eveybody in here. I know it's a great place; it's helped in the past so, it's time I put down some of my own work, and share it.

Perikles C. Stephanidis